The rehabilitation of educational and complementary spaces in the two pedagogical schools of the province of Ciego de Ávila will contribute to creating favourable environments to increase the quality of teacher training during the current school year, in addition to preserving the infrastructure.
The centres of that educational level, Rafael Simón Morales González and Raúl Corrales Fornos, located in the cities of Morón and Ciego de Ávila respectively, received at the start of the academic period more than a thousand students, including around 200 new entrants, with the challenge of turning them into educators and citizens ready to drive socioeconomic development in the country.
Exclusively for the Cuban News Agency, Gilmé Sánchez Cordero, Head of the Department of Pedagogical Training, Improvement and Scientific Activity in the General Directorate of Education in the province, highlighted that these institutions benefited from the execution of a comprehensive repair and maintenance plan.
The actions included constructive improvements and general restorations, interior and exterior painting, waterproofing on roofs to prevent leaks, replacements of damaged carpentry elements and furniture, repairs to electrical, hydraulic and sanitary networks, refurbishments in bathrooms and installations of drinking water access points.
Likewise, work was done on increasing lighting, with priority given to classrooms, libraries and laboratories.
Other repaired areas were the Computing, Science and Experimental Pedagogy laboratories; and, similarly, they worked on creating and refurbishing study rooms and libraries, where students will have access to digital resources.
The refurbishments also covered dining halls and student residences to guarantee hygiene and comfort conditions; in addition to carrying out maintenance on green areas, perimeter fences and access roads.
Technological solutions ensured the functioning of audiovisual and computer media, meanwhile, improvements in connectivity will favour the use of the internet for pedagogical and research purposes, as well as the use of educational software to strengthen methodological preparation.
Sánchez Cordero acknowledged that these transformations were achieved through the effort of several organisations in the Avilanian territory, workers from the educational sector, students and families, the latter with an essential role in the care and conservation of these centres.
Such actions correspond with the instructions of Naima Trujillo Barreto, Minister of Education, during her recent working visit to Ciego de Ávila to check the preparations for the current school year, an occasion on which she insisted on prioritising teaching coverage.
Pedagogical training is fundamental to progressively supplant the existing teacher deficit in the province, circumstances which have led to the implementation of numerous alternatives approved by the Ministry of Education to ensure that all classrooms have their teachers and that the study programmes are fulfilled at the different educational levels.
